"I'll always be a Red Sock," Youkilis said. "To negate all the years I played for the Boston Red Sox, and all the tradition, you look at all the stuff I have piled up at my house and to say I'd just throw it out the window, it's not true.

"Those were great years in Boston. One bad half-year doesn't take away from all the great years I had there."

Ridiculous for Yanks fans to get in an uproar about this. Everyone knows the only reason they signed Youkilis is because he was the only semi-talented 3B left on the market and they had absolute crap behind ARod. Youk needed a job, the Yanks had a glaring hole at 3B, both problems solved.